orthogonal

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The "treadmill" also employed two high-speed orthogonal cameras to capture unique locomotion features -- one a side view, the other from the bottom.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

The technical term for each cherry red form is an orthotope, defined as “the Cartesian product of orthogonal intervals known as a hyperrectangle, sometimes called a parallelotope.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

For which value of x is p = 〈 2, 8, −1 〉 orthogonal to q = 〈 x, −1, 2 〉 ?

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Find a unit vector orthogonal to both a and b, where a = 〈 4, 0, 3 〉 and b = 〈 1, 1, 4 〉 .

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Adj. vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright; rampant; standing up &c. v.; rectangular, orthogonal &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark